Garment-hanger.



No. 835,464. PATENTED NOV. 6, 1906. E. T. PALMENBERG.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 2'1. 190s.

HI. E m" i WITNESSES: I ip INVENTOR .Zmz'ZIPaZmezzezy ATTORNEYS I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1906.

Application filed January 27, 1906. Serial No- 298,178,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL THEO. PALMEN- BERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Hanger, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Theinvention relates to wearing-apparel apparatus, and its object is to provide a new and improved garment-hanger designed for supporting one or more garments, such as coats, skirts, and the like, and arranged to securely hold the supporting-bar in position on the hook and to readily accommodate the velvet or other delicate coat-collar without danger of crushing the same.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same,

which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure .1 is a perspective View of the improvement arranged with two supportingbars for supporting a number of garments at the same time. Fig. 2 is an enlargedfl sectional side elevation showing more particularly the fastening device for securing the shank of the hook to the supporting-bar, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The supporting-bars A and B for supporting different garments are of the usual curved shape, preferably made of wood, located one above the other and extending in the same plane. As shown in Fig. 1, the supportingbar A is shaped for supporting a coat, and the supporting-bar B is more especially designed for carrying a skirt; but it is evident that I do not limit myself to the particular shape and the use of the two supporting-bars.

Both supporting-bars A and B are attached to the shank C of a hook C, adapted to be hooked onto a bracket or other fixed support for suspending the garment-hanger, and the shank 0 extends through apertures formed in the supporting-bars A and B at the middle thereof, and the shank C is provided with struck-up laterally-extending wings or lugs 0 adapted to rest against the under side of the corresponding supporting-barA or B, and

the said wings C are inclosed in a cap D, fas

. the shank of the ho tened by nails E or similar fastening devices to the bar A or B. The cap D has its middle portion made spherical and apertures for the passage of the shank C, and the inner surface of the spherical portion firmly engages the under side of the wing G so as to press the same firmly against the under side of the bar A or B to hold the shank C, and consequently the hook O,from turning in the bars A and'B.

The shank C directly above the top of the bar A is provided with a V-shaped bend 0 extending transverse to the bar A and serving to receive the velvet or like delicate collar of the coat hung on the supporting-bar A, so that the material of the collar is not crushed, as would be the case if the shank C extended straight up from the top of the bar A. The lower end of the shank Cthat is, the portion below the cap D for the bar Bis doubled up and bent to form a strong hook C for supporting a single garment, the portion of o C adjacent to the cap D being twisted, as shown at O to increase the stren th of the hook C From t e foregoing it will be seen that by the arrangement described an exceedingly strong and durable garment-hanger is provided, capable of supporting anumber of garments of different shapes, the hanger being made of comparatively few parts, readily assembled and fastened in place without requiring much skilled labor.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A garment-hanger comprising a supporting-bar for the garment, a supportinghook having its shan extending through an aperture in the said supporting-bar, the 'said shank having struck-up lateral wings resting against the under side of the said supportingbar, and a cap secured to the said supportingbar and inclosing the said wings.

2. A garment-hanger, comprising a plu rality of supporting-bars, a hook having its shank extending through the supportingbars and provided below each bar wit wings and above the upper barwith a V- shaped bend, and a cap secured to the under side of each bar and inclosing the wings of the shank. I

3. A garment-hanger, comprising a plurality of supporting-bars, a hook having its shank passed through the bars and terminating in a hook below the lower bar, the shank lateral I Q3 eea eee of the hook being provided with lateral Wings name to this specification in the presence of bglow tifie bars a-ikdwith a ti-slaeped bend two subscribing Witnesses. a ove t e upoer er and exten in transversely to moi bar, and a cap secure% to the EMIL THEO PALMENBERG' 5 under side of eeeh bar and inclosing the Witnesses:

Wings of the shank. CHARLES A TYRRELL,

In testimony whereof I have signed'my A. C. PoRTEoUs. 

